Lauren Groff interviewed over at Full Stop about her novel Arcadia, which was a Millions Staff Pick in April.
It’s the opposite of a happy ending fairy tale. It’s just hell.
Insert Your Own “Judging” Joke Here
This list of the year’s best book covers -- chosen by the staff of Design Observer -- pairs nicely with our own comparison of book covers from the US and UK.
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More Moss
The new issue of Moss Magazine, "a journal of the Pacific Northwest," is up, including an interview with Amanda Coplin, author of The Orchardist. (The previous issue featured fiction by our own Sonya Chung.)
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Shakespeare Tour
The Folger Shakespeare Library is sending the First Folio around the country to honor the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
Will to No Power
Freudians know that Eros and Thanatos are opposites in the human psyche. The former, the love instinct, pushes us to survive, while the latter, the death instinct, pushes us to destruction. In an essay for Bookslut, Jelena Markovic explores the importance of Thanatos in daily life, using as an example a man she knew with an “instinct for nonexistence.”
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